What is a wide hawk?

broad -haired hawk, scientific name buteo platypterus , is a small and medium -sized raptor. It is a migration bird that lives in the woods. In the US, there are also a number of subspecies from the Caribbean islands. The International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) does not consider this species as immediate danger. This predatory bird usually increases only one young each year. He is a predator or prey of a bird, ie it is mainly carnivorous. The main diet of this kind includes rodents and small mammals, birds and small reptiles. When different prey is rare, they will also eat very large insects.

In spring and summer, these birds live in North America. As soon as the reproduction period ends, the wide Hawk migrates to South America. This species migrates huge flocks known as a kettle and complete the journey of over 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), moving to the southern part of Brazil. Whether these birds are in their summer or winter areas, they live in ripe forests and forests that have mild, tropical or subtropicalclimate.

There are several subspecies of broad -light hawk, which come from the Caribbean islands. These species live in tropical and subtropical climate. Non -evidence, because temperatures remain reasonably warm throughout the year.

iukn classes of the widerness of the hawk as a species with the least problem; It is assumed that there are more than one million birds and this species has a very large geographical range. One of the subspecies found only in Puerto Rico is given as endangered due to a small geographical range and that the population is estimated only on 50 breeding pairs.

During the period of reproduction, pairs create large, deep nests high on trees. Once the construction is finished, the woman lays up to five white to pastel blue eggs, which are spotted with dark spots. The egg takes about one month to hatch that a woman is solely responsible for incubation. As long as the egg hatch, the man does not stand over the nest andBring food back to the woman.

After hatching, feeding and breeding becomes a shared task. The youth will start shining after about six weeks, but they stay with their parents for about six months. This species raises only one chicks every season.